The Sound of Signals

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of "The Sound of Music" (the movie).

4 April 2015

With apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein - de W2PA

My Favorite Things (to the tune of "My Favorite Things", what else?)

Multiband yagis and Beverage wires

Bright copper ground rods and warm amplifiers

Paddles with magnets instead of with springs

These are a few of my favorite things

Rigs that have dials, and rigs that have mouses

No deed restrictions - antennas on houses

Signals that bounce off the moon sound like pings

These are a few of my favorite things

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When the band’s dead

When the amp blows

When I’m feeling sad

I simply remember my favorite things

And then I don’t feel so bad.

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DXpeditions reply to my call sign

Good propagation and sun spots and grey line

Old Collins Radio emblems with wings

These are a few of my favorite things

Hamfests and contests and on-the-air meetings

Seventy threeses and other weird greetings

Multi-hop long-path the F-layer brings

These are a few of my favorite things

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When the lightning

Hits my tower

When I’m feeling sad

I simply remember my favorite things

And then I don’t feel so bad.

Work Every Country (to the tune of "Climb Every Mountain")

Work ev'ry country

(Nay, entities)

Follow ev'ry new spot

Click the frequencies

Work ev'ry station

On ev'ry band

Search for multipliers

'Til your score is grand

A score that will need

All the points you can log

Night and day on the air

'Til your head’s in a fog

Work ev'ry country

Twice just in case

Don’t take off the headphones

'Til… you’ve… won… first…. place!

The Sound of Signals (to the tune of "The Sound of Music")

The bands are alive

With the sound of signals

A sound they have had

Scarcely hundred years

To most they are noise

But to hams they’re music

A ham wants to grok every one he hears